Health

A wonderful team: Praise for the medics treating cancer

Cheque for £2,000 is donated to Rigby Unit at Stratford Hospital to help support other patients and nursing staff.

New diagnostic centre to open at Stratford Hospital next year

The one-stop-shop diagnostic centre will bring together life-saving tests, checks and scans under one roof in Stratford.

Video – ‘Nobody can conceive of anything being a hospital without any beds’

The enormous strength of feeling in Shipston was on show – and the protests are likely to continue.

After years of silence George, 17, has a voice

Family share joy that George can now speak and give hope to others.

The full list of patients to be offered a Covid-19 autumn booster

Millions of at risk patients are to be offered a Covid-19 booster jab this autumn, the NHS has confirmed, but who is eligible for the injection?

Hundreds march through Shipston to demand town’s new hospital has in-patients beds

About 650 people turned out in pouring rain in Shipston on Saturday morning (5th August) to protest.

Doctors celebrate three decades of NHS service

Meon Medical Centre GPs mark 60 years of combined service to the NHS with flowers and cake.

GP and TV medic Dr Sarah Jarvis will lead a protest for beds at the Ellen Badger Hospital

TV MEDIC Dr Sarah Jarvis has slammed health bosses’ decision to cut inpatient beds at a Shipston hospital as ‘absolute nonsense’.

Alcohol prices to rise from August 1 – with a bottle of wine costing 44p more

The price of wine, gin and other spirits could rise significantly but why is your favourite drink about to become more expensive?

Lack of NHS dentists forced woman into DIY dentistry to stop the pain

The Herald spoke to a woman who resorted to DIY dentistry and looks at the state of NHS dentistry around Stratford.

A nursing career at the birth of the NHS

Spending time with family and watching Shakespeare at the RSC in Stratford are favourite passtimes for retired nurse who joined NHS in 1948.

Plans for new 95-bed care home next to Stratford railway station

Connaught Care wants to build accommodation for people who require nursing, residential or dementia care.

NHS under pressure to get public involved in south Warwickshire hospital bed review

Health bosses in are under pressure to allow the public to have their say over plans to build the Ellen Badger Hospital in Shipston without any beds.

South Warwickshire family’s £100k appeal after five-year-old boy’s brain cancer diagnosis

Taylan Kurtul was diagnosed a month ago with medulloblastoma, an aggressive form of brain cancer.

Call for public consultation after review says Shipston’s new hospital does not need beds

The NHS is being asked to let the public have their say about plans to have no community beds in Shipston.

Condoms being handed out to help halt increase in teenage pregnancies in Warwickshire

Warwickshire County Council is giving out condoms to try to curb a rise in under-18 pregnancy.

Junior doctors strike - advice for south Warwickshire patients

Warwick Hospital will continue to deal with emergencies and provide vital care during the four days of strike action by junior doctors.

Health

A wonderful team: Praise for the medics treating cancer

New diagnostic centre to open at Stratford Hospital next year

New diagnostic centre to open at Stratford Hospital next year

Video – ‘Nobody can conceive of anything being a hospital without any beds’

Video – ‘Nobody can conceive of anything being a hospital without any beds’

After years of silence George, 17, has a voice

After years of silence George, 17, has a voice

The full list of patients to be offered a Covid-19 autumn booster

The full list of patients to be offered a Covid-19 autumn booster

Hundreds march through Shipston to demand town’s new hospital has in-patients beds

Hundreds march through Shipston to demand town’s new hospital has in-patients beds

Doctors celebrate three decades of NHS service

Doctors celebrate three decades of NHS service

GP and TV medic Dr Sarah Jarvis will lead a protest for beds at the Ellen Badger Hospital

GP and TV medic Dr Sarah Jarvis will lead a protest for beds at the Ellen Badger Hospital

Alcohol prices to rise from August 1 – with a bottle of wine costing 44p more

Alcohol prices to rise from August 1 – with a bottle of wine costing 44p more

Lack of NHS dentists forced woman into DIY dentistry to stop the pain

Lack of NHS dentists forced woman into DIY dentistry to stop the pain

A nursing career at the birth of the NHS

A nursing career at the birth of the NHS

Plans for new 95-bed care home next to Stratford railway station

Plans for new 95-bed care home next to Stratford railway station

NHS under pressure to get public involved in south Warwickshire hospital bed review

NHS under pressure to get public involved in south Warwickshire hospital bed review

South Warwickshire family’s £100k appeal after five-year-old boy’s brain cancer diagnosis

South Warwickshire family’s £100k appeal after five-year-old boy’s brain cancer diagnosis

Call for public consultation after review says Shipston’s new hospital does not need beds

Call for public consultation after review says Shipston’s new hospital does not need beds

Condoms being handed out to help halt increase in teenage pregnancies in Warwickshire

Condoms being handed out to help halt increase in teenage pregnancies in Warwickshire

Junior doctors strike - advice for south Warwickshire patients

Junior doctors strike - advice for south Warwickshire patients

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